Eon Altar is a lovechild of the cardboard and digital worlds: it's a tabletop video game. Edward Douglas runs us through the basics of this ambitious co-op fantasy rpg that uses interactive screens in place of traditional boards and dice.
Right Games is a board game publisher based in Russia. From strategy to children to party and dexterity games, Ivan and Elena discuss four titles: Evolution, The Jam, Zombie, and Japanese Castle.
Kevin Brusky gives us the scoop on Rarrr!, a card game about giant monster battles. The twist? You must name your monster in order to give it superpowers.
Designer and former military officer Konstantin Krivenko talks about The Art of Tactic, an innovative system of wargame rules adaptable to many different historical periods, including Hot War: Battle for Oil an alternate history game set in the 1990s.
Chris Darden gives us the story behind Dungeon Roll, a press your luck dungeon delving dice game. We also learn about Geekway to the West, a regional game convention in St. Louis.
Ted Alspach gives us the lowdown on all things Suburbia. First we learn about the iOS version. Then we discuss the first expansion to the board game: Suburbia Inc
Mark Kaufman introduces Relic Runners, a route building game where players delve deep into temples to find sets of valuable treasures. The game also asks players to take on a famous math problem: the traveling salesman's dilemma.
Kevin G. Nunn and Christopher Badell unveil their plans for Sentinel Tactics, a skirmish level miniatures game using heroes and villains from Sentinels of the Multiverse. We also learn about the first expansion to Kevin's game Rolling Freight.
Colby Dauch talks about developing Siege of Columbia, the BioShock Infinite board game, in tandem with the video game. We also talk about Heart of Glorm, the new expansion for Mice and Mystics and get a sneak peek at some upcoming projects.
Max Michael discusses Credit Mobilier, a train game that plays in an hour or less. We also get a sneak peek a 3 upcoming titles including Tammany Hall: The Card Game.
Matthieu Bonin discusses a full slate of games from French publisher Iello including The Three Little Pigs, The Phantom Society, Guardians' Chronicle, Heroes of Normandie, Steam Park, and Zombie 15.
In episode 48, the founders jump right in with a walkthrough and review of the Fantasy Flight Games release of Merchant of Venus (Standard Edition). We thank our wonderful sponsors Stronghold Games, Game Salute and MiniatureMarket.com and all the other great publishers for donating games to our GenCon cabalist meet up. We then present the Dice Tower Network contest - if you want to win a $50 gift certificate to CoolStuffInc.com, head over to the BoardGameGeek Guild and post your discussion topic suggestion to enter. Then Tony rattles off all the gaming news that passed over the news desk while we chime in. The gang then talks about deluxe editions of board games and how much lust they generate in our lives. We round out the show with a round table discussion about technology in role playing games and how we handle it (or have failed in the past).
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